Probably because old calendars (such as the Persian Calendar) used 360 days for a year-when they watched the stars they saw them revolve around the North Star one degree per day.
September 27, 2015 will bring a supermoon lunar eclipse at nightfall. The last lunar eclipse of this magnitude occurred in 1982, and the next one of a similar magnitude will be in 2033. A lesser lunar eclipse will come in 2018. The lunar eclipse part of this phenomenon, according CTV, is caused by the Earth inserting itself between the sun and the moon. As this happens, the Earth casts its shadow on the face of the moon.
Editor's note: The next lunar eclipse will be a total lunar eclipse on Sept. 27. It will occur while the moon is at perigee, making it a rare Supermoon Blood Moon lunar eclipse. Such an event won't happen again until 2033. The moon shows its full face to Earth once a month. Well, sort of. In fact, when things are perfectly aligned and the moon would be 100 percent full, there is a lunar eclipse, so in reality the moon is never perfectly full. And sometimes â once in a blue moon â it is full twice in a month.